The most reoccurring issue reported in news here is retroactive censorship through patches. Both suck in this regard. GOG has offline installers, which facilitates data hoarding and piracy; still very inconvenient. Steam has per-game "beta" where a dev can offer rollbacks. Steam's DRM is at least easily cracked by warez groups, and notifies third party DRM. GOG is less bad because the same games won't have third-party DRM.
Sometimes a game is behind on patches with GOG. 95% of the time you want patches.
CDPR/GOG went woke/corporate over the past decade. Valve funds proton and open source/linux development. For now it is beholden to private investors. I only wish Valve had the disposable resources to overtake Linux desktop development from Red Hat/IBM. For this reason I buy games off Steam unless a select title warrants GOG.
I did not state or imply that, nor do I think that. Do you want me to think that to justify your disagreement?
What are you pigeon holing me for? I'm just stating that the adversary has infiltrated much of the hacker subculture as it has many others. The suggestion is to not underestimate the tenacity of bad forces, the risk of 1000 cuts.
Linux Foundation succumbed to the activist parasites years ago.
If you can't find something readily on pirate sites, go for it. Oft the most easily found ones opportunistically regurgitate current popular slop without any thought of acting as archival institutions.
Boycotting these predatory businesses (and lobbied-for copyright law) should be the norm for any healthy society and self-respecting subculture. This video is the strongest presentation of the topic I'm aware of.
The ending with singing Zulus is hokey, but the only problem is the stereotype warnings themselves. Also, cancel any and all legally sanctioned streaming services. It's not 2010 anymore, when Netflix was disrupting the dysfunctional state of Hollywood and cable TV.
Video was nowhere to be found on public youtube when I looked a year ago. Maybe Internet Archive or somewhere else has a better TV backlog.
All I remember of this guy is Xplay's Crysis review, where staff purposely glitched a drivable tank (tank level) for entertainment, and imposed that the whole game was that janky. I wonder where Anita's hitman footage got.inspiration from. How many of these legacy washouts aren't self-important lolcows?
Supposed to be independent. Native American nations don't have sovereignty, and have suffered under imposed socialistic policies over the past century.
McKinsey, always putting a rubber stamp on whatever corporate slop needs officiating. Intricately expensive means of procuring a circle-jerk.
Having met this guy's boss, Mayor Johnson, the pandering hypocrisy doesn't surprise me. The Democrat establishment is robotically Orwellian.
It is underappreciated in the mainstream how irregulated wall st is, just like health care, travel, banking, and any other despised industry of modern society. Capitalism would be letting stock markets decide if insider trading is permissible, not federal congress. Quarterly obsession is a combination of a forced framework and a century of abysmal financial policy.
On Windows, Librewolf doesn't auto-update, which is unacceptable for core internet facing software. Linux with package management is different, however I'm using Brave so I'm uninformed about librewolf versus Firefox.
Have an minimum viable product of whatever game(s) you've been working on. Not shippable, but just enough to have all-around experience of the dev and design process
As for strategy, RPG, and other sandboxes, I think what's needed is aesthetically sophisticated procedural generation. Flavor text, faction banners, entity behavior and motivations, so on. Take Rome 2: TW and think what it would take for a computer to generate meaningful start positions and cultures for fresh experiences (Civ games, but not necessarily dynamic landmasses). Furthermore, how are CA/Paradox Games arbitrarily free-form and inconsequential where the map ends up either one color or jigsaw vomit unrecognizable to how nations form in the real world. Imperator Augustus should be something that can happen over the course of a 272 BC campaign.
r/all was already largely shit when I joined in 2011. Such is the way of any platform that doesn't undertake exclusionary measures to curtail groupthink and other human maladies.
Serious investors make the point that strong stock market performance of the past 70ish years isn't guaranteed in the future. Diversification goes beyond 3/6 etf strategies, ideally including a rural estate, food rations, ammunition. Seems less fantastical than society taking the risk of a depression surpassing 1930s virtuously.
This is the point I made to imp when 'we covered the story late and sparsely’; that SBI is not itself in control of triple-a and that he missed our first post. Conspiracy narrative minded people and normies alike (oft enough overlap) won't wrap their head around the concept of prospiracy that is the decline of entrenched civilizations. Reality is mundane, self-interested, and spontaneously organized, which is noise to gossipers.
Whatever triple-a trends palworld copied from triple-a. On rails open world prefab survival craft unlive-service ephemeral arbitrary RPG. Cater to normies that think Samwise Tarly can be obese post wall expedition because dragons exist and "it's fantasy".
Individualism is bipolar. To some it's independent thought, individual responsibility and consequences, and to others it's a free pass to degeneracy.
Generally, explicitly right-wing libertarians support controlled borders. Center libertarians have done a lot of damage to whatever potential the movement had, with humanist positivity peddling and a lacking adherence to game theory both on platform (I.e. some in favor of special tax breaks that lobbyists make sure don't apply to small business) or in campaigning (ex. Jo bending the knee to BLM).
At the very least, use services where pseudonyms are the norm. Won't protect against the FBI with a warrant, but at least gives a chance against the robots in school administrations. Probably too much to expect regular teens and pre-teens to use messengers that don't archive by default and aren't run off a Silicon Valley VC business model.
Libertarians have been a vocal minority shunned by many establishment types, for example the Moral Majority or left-leaning academics too dependent on government infrastructure. Certainly so by the mid 00's when I was discovering politics beyond the watered-down version taught by grade school. But it's certainly intensified from relatively fringe snarky mockery to the modern vitriol shared with Trump supporters, Brexiteers, and other right-wing populist undesirables.
I guess consequentialism (superset of utilitarian) and not letting beliefs distort perception reality are what is important. It is disconcerting that there are/were influential people that guided by literal utilitarianism, humanism, etc without an comprehensive anchor (what the word holistic is supposed to mean). Uilitarian libertarianism happens to be an identifiable brand that contrasts with single-issue fuckwads and true believers.
Look, if you liked Duck Tales as a kid, fantastically fine. But shared values mean jackshit if that means globohomo appreciation of American Idol. This is why I'm distrustful of some "trad-cons" in this forum whom I'm convinced have a hard-on for whatever televangelists and Robert McNamara sold last century.
Knowing corporate censors, such exposure would jeopardize availability of verboten materials.